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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe you live in another part of the country where July 1 is the cutoff date for starting school?  Here in DC-MD-VA the cut off is September 1, or it was when my child started school.  Here, a June birthday is considered right near the middle so holding him back here wouldn't make sense.

I have an end of August birthday child (son) who is now in high school. He was ready to start his pre-K program in terms of showing signs of curiosity, and he was potty trained.  So we started him with the age group he qualified for.  But that put him on the school conveyor belt that I now can't get him off of even though it would make his life so much easier and better to stay back a year.  It never occurred to me that we wouldn't be able to keep him in an extra year of elementary (he was in a Montessori program) unless he was seriously failing classes.  It's almost like it was his bad fortune to be smart enough to just keep up, which is ridiculous.

And to the poster who wrote this: 
"My first suggestion would be to LISTEN CLOSELY to what your child's preschool teacher says."

I disagree completely.  Kindergarten teachers have no way to tell you the rate at which your child will develop and how puberty will unfold. All they can say is whether he might be a bit bored with paper cutouts or learning his colors for another year.  But so what if he is?!

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Look, a september 1 cutoff will never make a june kid "right near the middle".  Everyone born in Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May will be older than him.  Jul Aug will be younger.  That's not the middle. Especially considering most of the Aug kids get redshirted. [/quote]

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